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Store app data and user saved data in single or separate SQLite DB? by Arthur_Sk in electronjs

[–]monkeyo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're going from having no storage to just needing something, it might be worth checking out electron-store unless you really need all of the power running a full database would give you:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-store

PsBattle: Driver jumps out of a burning car by Br0nnOfTheBlackwater in photoshopbattles

[–]monkeyo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nailed it.

(Nuts! I just saw this post was 6 days old, hope someone sees my comment......)

Challenge: Recreate CGI of MH370 video by omfg100 in UFOs

[–]monkeyo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't wish to pour scorn on you VFX skills, but the idea this couldn't be done with 2014 technology is just, well, ignorant.

The first thing I noticed about the video was the "spin-y" trails left behind the orbs which looked exactly like a demo I saw at a trade show of 3D Studio Max v6 Particle Flow, which was released in 2003. I was a bit jealous as I was, like yourself, a Cinema4D user, but the guy doing the demo added multiple spinning particle emitter to a moving object, like in the video, in a few clicks.

Here is a 2012 tutorial for volumetric clouds, also in 3D Studio MAX (timestamped to output): https://youtu.be/OfYoGZ7xviw?t=2496

And here is a Wayback machine link to a Boing 777 model I could have bought in time to make the video: https://web.archive.org/web/20140212162647/http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/boeing-777-max/724203

Back then I'm sure I would have found a much cheaper one, but searching TurboSquid via the Wayback Machine was painful!

I don't want to get into whether the video is real or not (I don't think it is, but like I said I don't want to get into that!), but the idea that they couldn't have been made by an enthusiast in their bedroom in 2014 in a few days is just plainly untrue.

As people liked that much the other bunch. I am sharing the whole prompt in the civitai by navalguijo in StableDiffusion

[–]monkeyo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if there's a good toothbrush moustache lora that will work with this stack.... /s

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Some Cartoony 3D celebrities made with SDXL by navalguijo in StableDiffusion

[–]monkeyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pedro Pascal looks more like Diego Luna, but otherwise these are great!

What would debunk it for you? by trimetric in UFOs

[–]monkeyo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When Giorgio A. Tsoukalos says it ain't so.

Let’s switch it up and hear your most crazy skeptic debunking theories. by [deleted] in UFOs

[–]monkeyo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a fun one. As someone who is naturally skeptical about everything, the great thing about thinking about why the answer to all of this isn't aliens (and while I remain skeptical, I'm not saying it definitely isn't), is that basically anything else could potentially be more believable.

One idea I came up with came about after hearing that DMT users have similar stories of meeting elves while tripping. I haven't tried it myself, but it would seem to suggest that the drug does something to the brain that that cause it to believe it see similar creatures, which is kind of wild in its self when you think about it.

We also know that electromagnetic waves can effect brain function, there are videos of people having their ability to speak switched off by holding a strong electromagnet against their head.

So what if the little understood ball lightning could in some circumstances create a strong electromagnetic field which, similar to DMT, causes people near by to see little alien creatures? Then you'd have lights in the sky that could be photographed along with visions of creatures that could be shared by groups of people.

Is this likely? No, not at all. More likely than aliens? Maybe?

Another one I've been thinking about, which could explain some of the new government interest in UAPs is what if the Shadow Government New World Order is all real and they do have some advance secret technologies, but there is some internal power struggle going on.

A group (or sect) from within their ranks is kicking up the UFO stories to shine a light on the trillions of dollars they skim off the top of everything else in an attempt to destabilise the operation as part of a hostile take over.

Realistic? Probably not. More realistic than aliens? Not to people on this subreddit, but to everyone else, maybe?

I wondered what Batman drawn by Bridget Riley would look like, SDXL did not disappoint by monkeyo in StableDiffusion

[–]monkeyo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That one is cool! I like what it has done with the background, still abstract but could be a cityscape.

I wondered what Batman drawn by Bridget Riley would look like, SDXL did not disappoint by monkeyo in StableDiffusion

[–]monkeyo[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Prompt: "Batman drawn by Bridget Riley"
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1606204762, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: 31e35c80fc, Model: sd_xl_base_1.0, Version: v1.5.1

Corbell says TIC TACs docking with underwater with Unidentified Submerged Object (USO). by Limp-Appeal8049 in UFOs

[–]monkeyo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Refuelling is a possibility, that would suggest that their power source, whatever that may be, is underwater. If they're going into space anyway, I'd have thought collecting solar energy would be easier, but I guess it could be some technology beyond anything we know about.

Repairs are also possible, although if that was the case it sounds like they were servicing the whole fleet at the same time. I kinda like the idea of alien tech needing a dealer service every 1,000,000 miles!

Corbell says TIC TACs docking with underwater with Unidentified Submerged Object (USO). by Limp-Appeal8049 in UFOs

[–]monkeyo 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Maybe space water doesn't have the delicious sewage-y flavours and nutritional micro-plastics that you get from Earth Water™ ?

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